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BEST seafood with a view .... NOT FANCY PLS.
Here’s a link to a thread from last summer with a bunch of firsthand eating reports for the wharf so you can decide for yourself. As usual, hound opinions are all over creation, but there you are. Link:...
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Top Chef Finale Part 1 (spoilers)
Actually Gail says in her blog that she wished they had included more of what Hung had said, about how cooking is his passion and how he grew up with it as a guiding force. She said he was vehement and sincere, and she...
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no chowhound friends???
won’t even touch it over here, much less to fly 3,000 miles to be taken to one. . .. But it was a sweltering summer day and we both wanted AC, and I had luggage with me, and the main point was to see him. :-P But this is...
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OK to bring my own wine from Trader Joe's? [moved from LA board]
Rothchilde or Chateau la Tour as a gift, and brought it to Providence, paying $20 for corkage. HE SPENT NOTHING on the bottle, but the corkage. heck, that’s even cheaper than two buck chuck. Would you still object? If the...
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Brian-Scholls Public House
I waited at Lou Malnati’s for 45 minutes with two little brother’s in tow this last summer and then sat down, ordered, and waited another 45 minutes for the pie. Personally, I’d prefer to wait for Brian’s...
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Jeez, is everyone still recovering from the Westernathon?
to be cooked while we followed our new guide. Marty, as he is also known, lead us to a combined pet store/grooming center/home brew supply house that proves the most trendiest place can eventually work their way to the outskirts...
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catering client expectation too high!!
This thread was more exciting than most Summer Blockbuster Movies!! Thanx for the entertainment @ no cost. (other than time, of course...) Please update us if you can. (Think “Wedding Crashers”-if ever an event needed...
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$1100 later... URASAWA report! - VERY long!
!) that it’d be awfully hard to convince even Japanese that you could really find it here. I’m stunned this place has it, and it, alone, makes it worth the trip to me. I had some junsai in Japan this summer, and it was...
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Two Golds For 'Two-Buck'
save me thousands of dollars if I could actually drink a $2 bottle of wine and enjoy it. What is a shame is when this wine wins 2 gold medals. Doesn’t send the right message to consumers who use these awards and scores to...
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Do-not-miss dining: Toronto
of flavours – some of the best come out of the wood-fired ovens of Bagel House ( http://www.torontolife.com/guide/food/bakers/bagel-house/) on Bayview Ave., right next-door to a fantastic...
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The nit-picky cook/baker: what shortcuts do you take, and what shortcuts make you cringe?
, not the grocery store, and I grind the spices in a mortle & pestle. World of difference. Exceptions to the dried herbs...I have good luck with fresh rosemary and always buy that. Sometimes in the summer the basil looks nice and...
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Are Chinese Restaurants the most intimidating ethnic establishments?
". A qoute that has guided me through many life situations, not all related to food.
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Holidays--food, family, point?
Your post brought back great jello memories. I personally love jello b/c it was my first attempts at “cooking” as a kid. I made the multi-color kind w/ the tilted glass all summer long...a special treat I would...
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Weight Watchers "Core" vs. "Points" Plans
on gobbling up the stuff that can’t keep at all and putting up the things that will keep. I now realize there is no point in eating A LOT (dare I say ANY?) zucchini in summer aside from what we get the first week or two to satisfy...
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Tex-Mex Essentials
I almost cried when I ate at Ninfa’s: The fajitas were the best I’d ever had: Seared beef seared perfectly and seasoned redolent of the herbal scent of the desert on a summer night with cumin, salt, pepper and sage....
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